People: Memsic Inc (MEMS.O)

Dr. Lawrence A. Kaufman, Ph.D. is Independent Director of MEMSIC Inc since 2008. Dr. Kaufman has been the president and chief executive officer of Lightwave Power Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based light management products, since May 2008. From 2006 to 2007, Dr. Kaufman was a partner in The GulfStream Group. Prior to joining The GulfStream Group, Dr. Kaufman founded Sionex Corporation, a venture-backed company that develops miniature chemical sensors, and served as its president and chief executive officer from 2000 to 2003 and as Executive Vice President from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Kaufman currently serves as a director of Top Banana, a non-profit education company and is an advisor to Water Analytics, Inc., a company selling waste water analytical instrumentation. Dr. Kaufman was a director of Optical Tape Systems, Inc., from 2005 to 2007, and a director of The MicroOptical Corporation, from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Kaufman received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Tufts University.